Is Proton mail a reliable substitute in your opinion?
“Is Proton mail a reliable substitute in your opinion?’
I use it, and it has been great.
I use Chinese email services. I have accounts at 126.com and 163.com.
Firstly, it is FAST...whoosh! No call-backs to NSA headquarters, and data-mining operations by Google, Facebook and all their ilk.
Sure the Chicoms get my email. Big deal. They won’t use it like the NSA will use it. I know that is not a popular narrative here on FR, but heck, it’s the truth. In the USA, the government can press a button, and suddenly you have reams of data to “prove” how evil you are. The Chinese don’t need the excuses. If you want you locked up, you get locked up. It’s a far simpler system.
It sounds rotten, but in practice, it doesn’t affect me.
The free versions have advertisements in Chinese. It’s sort of like Yahoo in that regard, but much cleaner and much, much faster.
BTW... Under what AUTHORITY did the Department of Homeland Security have to take down “kickasstorrents”? Owned by a foreign entity, with non-American servers. I thought that the federal police operated independently from the CIA?